BID ON THE-SALEROOM
An Arts and Crafts copper fountain,
designed by Joseph Hodel and G P Bradley for the Bromsgrove Guild,
the large trefoil reservoir base supported on a circular foot, centred with a multi-tiered column with water jet nozzles, three hanging lights with three butterflies modelled with shells as wings, the top with a light fitting modelled as a flowerhead, signed on the underside 'J Hodel & Bradley, London, 1900', raised on an hexagonal mahogany base with pump fittings,
109cm high fountain
91.5cm high base
Provenance: Probably exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Arts & Crafts Exhibition, 1900 - listed as a 'Electric Light and Water Fountain'.
Josef Anton Hodel (1874-1930)
Hodel was born in Lucerne, Switzerland and he may have received some training at the Lucerne School of Arts and Crafts. He worked for Bossard Goldsmiths in Lucerne where a fellow worker was Louis Weingartner. After moving to Britain, they became partners at the Bromsgrove Guild based in Hanway Street, London.
Hodel